Degree

Submitted by Mateja Poposki on Tue, 04/02/2014 - 12:13

A unit of angular measure represented by the symbol o. The circumference of a circle contains 360 degrees. When applied to the roughly spherical shape of the Earth for geographic and cartographic purposes, degrees are each divided into 60 minutes. Source: NASA (http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Glossary)